http://www.techeye.net/hardware/france- ... tablet-taxThe article isn't to clear on why, but it could be the film and recording industry tax they put on stuff to compensate those 'poor' industries that have lost so much money to pirated music and movies. For some reason windows users don't do this though

Something similar is going through parliament in Finland too except it's going to be on anything that can store a file, ie. compact flash storage, phones, mp3 players, hard drives etc... We've already had our recordable CDs and DVDs taxed for years (apparently that's not enough now).

Hey, hang on. Windows 7 is exempt because it is neither mobile-specific nor a clean build. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Android technically still a Linux distro, and Linux is neither mobile-only nor clean? That must make Android exempt, too.

Personally, I think this is all a jealous plot against iP[insert syllable of choice]s because they are just too shiny not to be made in Paris.